All posts tagged "World"
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Welcome to the New Egyptian ParliaMENt
By Ibtisam Barakat This cartoon is a response to the astonishing fact that the number of women who won seats in the post-Mubarak Egyptian parliamentary elections...
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Why the Question of Palestine is a Feminist Concern
By Neferti X. M. Tadiar I was recently part of a fact-finding delegation to Palestine organized by the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The...
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Long-Term Worldwide Decline In Abortions Has Stalled
After a period of substantial decline, the global abortion rate has stalled, according to new research from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization...
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TFW Forum on Palestine
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, recently returned from a trip to Israel/Palestine as a member of the first LGBTQI delegation to the...
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UN Agencies Address Maternal Health In Haiti
Two years since the earthquake in Haiti UN Women and UNFPA Haiti have worked to improve conditions for women, who still face rapes and gender-based...
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A Fly Girl: Black Sexual Politics and Beyoncé
By David J. Leonard and Kristal Moore Clemons A newly discovered horse fly by Australian scientist Bryan Lessard has become global media fodder. While usually not a...
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Gender Barricading: Israel Gynecology Conference Bars Women Speakers
An upcoming conference on gynecology and women’s health in Jerusalem, Israel has announced that women speakers will not be allowed to attend the event. The...
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Video: Today TFW salutes Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlvEiBRgp2M&feature=related We (still) have miles to go before we sleep~TFW Collective
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UN Issues First Report On Human Rights Of Gay And Lesbian People
The first ever United Nations report on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people details how around the world people are...
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Brazil’s Insidious New Pregnancy Registration Law Violates the Privacy of Women
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was gathering a group a conservative legislators to stealthily assist in drafting and enacting a Ceauşescu-like law requiring all...
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Adieu to ‘Mademoiselle’: French Town Bans ‘Sexist’ Term
Cesson-Sévigné, a suburb of Rennes, France, has banned the use of the title “mademoiselle” on all official forms starting January 1, 2012. Two feminist groups...
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For David Kato: A Love Poem: a Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, 1964-2011
By Joseph Ross Because my kisses are tender against your throat. Because my lips are not the steel hammer that snaps your neck...
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Transnational Parental – Child Abduction: ’Tis the Season to be Wary
By Anique John-Carter and Alanna Kennedy Transnational abduction frequently conjures up images of children being trafficked from one part of the world to another for economic...
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Remedy for a Homophobic/Biphobic/Queerphobic/ Transphobic Naija
By Adaku Chinenye Utah On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 my country, Nigeria, passed an anti-gay bill through the Senate that would criminalize same-sex marriages and civil...
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Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, is Dead
Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who has been battling ill health following a reported stroke in 2008, has died, the North’s official news...
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A Manifesto: The Silence of HIV, Killing Us Slowly
By Monique Howard When you read this, read it in a loud voice. I am screaming, ranting, trying to be heard over the din of the...
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From "Temp Job" to Career: A Quarter Century in the Fight Against HIV
By Al Cunningham My perspective on HIV prevention continues to be driven by the circumstances under which I became involved in this work 25 years...
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Positively Speaking: An Interview with Maria Mejia
By: C. Jones The Feminist Wire has decided to place the voices of persons living with HIV/AIDS at the center of its 2011 World AIDS...